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Here are a few Streetsblog news nuggets to start your weekend.Demonstrators briefly block traffic to demand transit funding Transit activists blocked traffic as part of a demonstration Thursday to demand state funding for BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, and other agencies people depend on to get around.

By Philip Ruth-
As new cars slowly transition to electric power, muscular gas-powered engines are falling out of fashion.Even Hemi-happy Dodge signaled its pivot with new electrified products and concepts.Wither the high-revving hijinks of yore, as our silent and smooth future unfolds.Right, tell that to this week's Land Rover Defender 110 V8 ($107,700), as its supercharged V8 engine exhales a burbling rumble from its four exhaust tips.

The electric vehicle market share has grown greatly over the past few years.However, despite the rise in the adoption of EVs nationwide, not all cities are built as well for EVs as they are for gas cars - in some places, public EV chargers can be far and few between, unlike gas stations that populate every corner.

People check the damage at their apartments hit by a Russian missile in Mykolaiv, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)KYIV, Ukraine - Germany's president arrived in Kyiv Tuesday for his first visit to Ukraine since the start of Russia's invasion, a trip that comes amid Moscow's unsubstantiated warnings of a "dirty bomb" attack as the conflict enters its ninth month.

People queue up to wait a ration food from World Central Kitchen organisation in the center of Mykolaiv, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022.As Ukraine crosses the mark of eight months anniversary since the start of full-scale war, the residents of southern Mykolaiv, who suffer shelling almost every night, are determined to fight as long as it takes to liberate all the regions.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript.Please enable JavaScript for the best experience.Fusion energy is the ultimate clean-energy dream.It's what powers the sun.Researchers have been trying for decades to mimic that process.But creating what amounts to a miniature star that can be hooked up to the electrical grid has been an expensive, grindingly slow, often frustrating process, with electricity from fusion always seemingly at least a couple of decades away.

America's major automakers are getting back into Formula 1 racing.Following General Motors' recent announcement that it's applying, along with Andretti Global, to field a team in the prestigious racing series, Ford has now announced that it's getting back into the sport to help build engines.While GM's plan requires approval by the sport's governing body, something that is not guaranteed, Ford has an agreement to work with Red Bull Powertrains which supplies hybrid engines to both of Red Bull's F1 teams.

In the aftermath of a massacre that left six people dead in the small farming town of Goshen early Monday, details remain sparse.The victims include a teen mother and her infant son.Reporter: Joshua Yeager, KVPR
Residential Batteries Linked Over Internet Could Help State's Power Grid
California could soon have a new repository of electric power, capable of stabilizing the state's power grid.

Lawyers and legal professionals using the AI-powered document drafting tool Clearbrief to create a legal brief or document will now be able to seamlessly view any case law they cite thanks to a partnership with the legal research and intelligence company Fastcase, the companies announced today.As I have written before, Clearbrief is an innovative legal technology product designed to strengthen legal writing in Microsoft Word by instantly finding the best evidence or law to support your argument.

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists took a step toward self-charging wearable devices with the invention of a dynamic magnifier-enhanced piezoelectric vibration energy harvester that can amplify power generated from impulsive vibrations, such as from human walking, by about 90 times, while remaining as small as currently developed energy harvesters.

Germany's president has arrived in Kyiv for his first visit to Ukraine since the start of Russia's invasion.he trip comes amid Moscow's unsubstantiated warnings of a "dirty bomb" attack as the conflict enters its ninth month.President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after arriving that "it was important to me in this phase of air attacks with drones, cruise missiles and rockets to send a signal of solidarity to Ukrainians", German news agency dpa reported.